Chiyoda (Kantai Collection)

Chiyoda (千代田) was an Chitose class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was originally built 1934-1936 as a seaplane carrier and midget submarine carrier, before being converted to a light carrier in 10 months time from March to December 1943#1 at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on Tokyo Bay, south of Yokohama.

She was damaged in the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–20, 1944), nicknamed the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot by American aviators, a decisive naval battle of World War II which effectively eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions.

Both Chiyoda and her converted sister ship Chitose were sunk by a combination of naval bombers, cruiser shellfire and destroyer-launched torpedoes during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as part of Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa's Northern Mobile ("Decoy") Force. According to the plan for the Sho-ichi go operation, both of these carriers were divested of aircraft and successfully used to decoy the main body of the American fleet away from the landing beaches in the Philippines.